How to Remove Your Information from SearchPeopleFree

What is SearchPeopleFree — and the .com vs .net question

SearchPeopleFree.com is a free people-search site publishing public-record listings — addresses, phone numbers, and relatives.

Its ownership isn't publicly disclosed, and the few sources that do list an address don't even agree with each other: the Better Business Bureau lists a private mailbox suite (a "PMB" number, similar in kind to a UPS Store box) in Baltimore, MD, while a separate business-data provider lists an entirely different address in Taft, CA with no parent company named. The domain itself is registered privately through a proxy service, which conceals the real registrant.

Here's the part worth flagging rather than assuming away: there is a separate site, SearchPeopleFree.net, with its own distinct BBB business profile — registered under a different name ("Searchers of Records") and a different city (Denver, CO) than the .com site's Baltimore listing.

That's the same shape of lookalike-domain question documented for TruePeopleSearch.com versus the unrelated TruePeopleSearch.net. Unlike that case, though, we have not found an equivalent independent investigation (WHOIS records, fabricated-founder evidence, and so on) proving the .com and .net sites are run by different companies here — so treat it as an open question, not a confirmed fact, and check both domains for your name separately.

One verified technical note: SearchPeopleFree.com runs Cloudflare bot-detection (TLS fingerprinting, JavaScript challenges, Turnstile) alongside DataDome behavioral detection and a hard US-only geoblock, according to an independent scraping-technique writeup. That doesn't change the removal process, but it explains why the site can be unreachable from outside the US or through automated tools.

If a request is denied or a listing reappears

SearchPeopleFree's Better Business Bureau profile carries a B+ rating but is not BBB accredited, with 26 complaints filed in the last three years (7 closed in the past 12 months).

A recurring theme across those complaints is a removal request denied on the grounds that the requester's state doesn't have a "comprehensive consumer privacy law" — the same justification pattern documented against TruePeopleSearch. Other recurring complaint themes include listings that persist even after a confirmed removal, inaccurate records (including phone numbers linked to the wrong person), and safety concerns from exposed addresses and phone numbers.

To its credit, the company does respond to BBB complaints — typically by resubmitting the removal request, pointing to an appeal process in its Privacy Notice, or explaining that it only aggregates public records it can't independently correct. Not every response satisfies the person who filed the complaint, so if your first attempt is denied or ignored, filing a BBB complaint is a documented path that at least gets a response.

And if a nearly identical listing turns up on searchpeoplefree.net after you've cleared the .com listing, that's not a failed removal — it may be a separate site entirely, given the unresolved ownership question above, and it needs its own opt-out attempt.